Media & PR

Some of the most digital-ready games companies will offer advice on how to sell digital games at Games Retail 2020. Top brass from Xbox and Sega, the developer/publisher Team 17 and games retail start-up gamesGRABR will take part in a panel discussion at the event, which takes place on September …

The voting is now open to select which charities will receive money raised by games industry charity GamesAid. The official amount of money has yet to be announced, but it will be the biggest year yet for GamesAid fundraising. Last year, the charity raise 260,000 for Action for Kids, Lifelites, …

Last year RailSimulator.com made the decision to change its name to Dovetail Games. This was the result of the firm moving away from focusing purely on its Train Simulator series to branch out into new simulation markets. And its first foray into a new world is with fishing. When we …

Gameforge CEO Carsten van Husen tells MCV about the publisher’s new mobile titles and why browser gaming is far from over. Analysts say browser games are in decline. Why continue to support them? The mobile revolution obviously changed entertainment behavior in the sense of partially substituting the PC with mobile …

31,500 trade attendees head to consumer show in Cologne

2K Games’ multiplayer Evolve won five accolades at this year’s Best of Gamescom awards. As well as collecting the coveted Best of Gamescom award, it also got the nod in the Best Xbox, Best Action, Best PC Game and Best Multiplayer awards. The Most Wanted Consumer Award was handed to …

Mike. Bithell. Two words sure to strike fear into the heart of every game developer. Three years ago, no one had heard of him, but now you can’t open a website or trade publication without someone writing about the man behind Thomas Was Alone, just like I am now. It …

The Last of Us marked a massive leap forward not only graphically, but also in terms of video game narrative. We sat down with the visionary writer and creative director for the title, Neil Druckmann, to get his side of the story – and see what’s next When I was …

Sony’s PlayStation 4 re-release of last year’s classic The Last of Us is top of the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. It holds the top spot with a 55 per cent decline in sales this week. Further down the charts Grand Theft Auto V shoots up to No.4 thanks to a …

Media company Future has announced its new executive management team. Nial Ferguson has been appointed as content and marketing director, having previously served at Future for six years. Prior to this he was managing director of Future UK. Media veteran Jeff Turner has joined the media firm as commercial director …